Thursday, August 4, 2011

One day you call your doctor because last night you felt a tightness in your chest. You feel fine now, but it was bad last night. He chews your ass, telling you that you know better and should have called 911.

But you didn’t, not because you didn’t think you were having a heart attack (you did), but because you were in the middle of a crack binge, and had you done so, you would have gone to the hospital – and then straight to jail.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon got nearly everything it asked for during a decade of two wars shadowed by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the rise of al-Qaida. No more.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen acknowledged that reality Thursday, saying the military is resigned to budget cuts of around $350 billion over a decade to meet the public clamor for reducing the nation's debt. But they quickly warned that more than doubling those cuts along the lines of the "doomsday mechanism" spelled out in the new debt-limit law would undermine the military.

New ATF bombshell--was cocaine from cartels allowed in U.S.?

In the ongoing investigation into the DOJ-ATF-Obama Administration gun smuggling scandal that is the subject of Congressional hearings, a possible new bombshell has been revealed today indicating that federal agents may have deliberately allowed the Sinaloa Mexican drug cartel to bring cocaine into the United States.

Moon With Yogurt - How Sham Accounting Rules in Washington

Everyone knows the "Beltway Spending Addicts" are using sham accounting, but how exactly are they doing it? It's simple really... throwing a bunch of spending into the mix and then scale it all back. Money saved!!!

Tension on Wall Street was extremely high on Thursday. Traders piled into Treasury bonds, seen as one of the safest non-cash assets during tumultuous times. Indeed, Treasury yields on 10-year Treasury securities dipped well below 2.5% -- the lowest since November.

Rebecca Wodder, the radical Big Green enviromentalist nominated by President Obama as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, won't be doing anything in that job until the administration's slow-walking extension of hundreds of permits for oil and natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is lifted.

That's because Sen. David Vitter, R-LA, has placed a hold on the Wodder nomination and made clear the hold stays until the Obama-directed bureucratic delays on restoring Gulf energy access are relaxed. The Louisiana Republican wants the permits extended a year.

Will Deporting Millions of Muslims be Necessary for Europe to Survive?With a Muslim Commander in Chief, all branches of our military, legislature, and local governments beginning to be co-opted by supporters of Muslim Brotherhood, Cair, ISNA and other pro Muslim groups, to a more or lesser degree, the average American is completely dormant about the transformation of his country. Nowhere is there the leadership to deal with this issue! Whenever it is addressed, the race card is carefully played out, neutralizing opposition groups......http://www.newswithviews.com/Shifren/nachum116.htmby Rabbi Nachum Shifren

Tolerance and Diversity: America's Achilles HeelEvery major terrorist attack on the Western world from slaughtering Jewish athletes at the 1972 Olympics to 9/11 served humanity with a warning. Islam, whether peaceful and prolific birthrates or treacherous terrorism, marches forward with one prime directive: dominate all cultures and countries. It’s been a slow boil since 9/11 when Muslim terrorists drove airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York City. Out of the ashes, Islam expects to build a massive mosque honoring its religion within a block of the......http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty685.htmby Frosty Wooldridge

Many U.S. governors are actively seeking to attract investment money from China’s state-owned corporations. In some cases they are using taxpayer-paid incentives to sweeten the deal. In order to expedite such investments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a Memorandum of Understanding with her counterpart from China on January 19, 2011 that established the U.S.-China Governors Forum. The first meeting of this forum was held July 15-17 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the National Governors Association in Salt Lake City. Some 20-30 U.S. governors took part in the forum. The next forum will be held in China in October.

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Excellent blog post about the Marine I noted in yesterday’s digest. ~Bob. Excerpt: Yesterday I had the honor and privilege to meet Todd and Crystal Nicely, two Marines, both American heroes. The Nicelys will "anchor" my book Courage in America. In the weeks ahead, I hope to identify nine other “characters with character” to join them in a cast of heroes. Your help in identifying other heroes from our military that might approach the caliber of Todd and Crystal is very much invited. As you will see from visiting Todd’s Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Nicely-Wounded-Warrior-Benefit/109240662434558), the Nicelys set a very high bar.

About 1,100 people have set up appointments with the New Mexico motor vehicle office to verify that they are New Mexico residents. This accounts for 11% of the total 10,000 “foreign nationals” or possibly U.S. Citizens who have obtained a New Mexico driver’s license with identification other than a Social Security number who have been contacted for verification of residency. About 85,000 are listed in the state’s database of “foreign” drivers.

New Mexico is one of three states that issues licenses without requiring proof of immigration status. The intent of the law, approved in 2003 when Bill Richardson was governor, was to make it possible for illegal immigrants living in New Mexico to obtain licenses so they could drive to work and buy auto insurance.

Current Gov. Susana Martinez said the law has turned New Mexico into a magnet for illegal immigrants from other states and several have been arrested trying to fraudulently obtain driver’s licenses, including people from Mexico, Poland, and China.

ALERT: Can we finally WIN the war against ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION that we've been fighting so hard for so many years?

YES, thanks to legislation that's just been introduced in Congress: the "Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act," or "LEAVE Act."

The LEAVE Act was introduced by Rep. Gary Miller, who is from California. Like so many other states, California has good reason to want to finally END America's illegal immigration crisis: Each year, California households alone pay an average of $1,183 EACH to provide health care, education, and incarceration to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. In these economically challenging times, there is NO REASON that hard-working families in ANY state should be forced to bear these costs.

NOW WE CAN FINALLY PUT A STOP TO THAT!But we need YOUR HELP to make sure it happens!

Parents often rely on this old proverb to teach their children the value of discipline and hard work.
But greedy union bosses have their own version: If you get caught breaking the law the first time, try, try again.

Last year, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys provided free legal aid to eight local government employees in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, who exercised their right to refrain from formal union membership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1600 union.

If President Obama needed any more indication of how much his public support has eroded, he need look no further than a recent memorandum of sorts published in the New York Times by former President Bill Clinton​’s pollster, Stanley Greenberg​. Listen to Greenberg, whose progressive polling firm partners with Clinton strategist James Carville​, advise Obama and Democrats on what his latest round of polls and focus groups reveal are their only hope to survive politically, given the current reality.

Much can and will change between now and November 2012. However, when a successful Democratic strategist all but urges the most far Left president in American history to don a three-cornered hat and join the Tea Party policy parade of fiscal discipline and border enforcement, you know there’s serious trouble in progressive paradise.

What happens when society’s leftist intellectuals begin to reinforce ideological philosophies intended to undermine civilization as we know it? More specifically, what will become of our children when the basic norms of childhood development are removed and replaced with radical polices pushed forth by academic storm troopers? Radical thinkers are determined that children must no longer be allowed to live according to the gender in which children are born, but rather be made to become genderless beings.

Typical Leftist Radical Rhetoric Denigrating the Right... Six Recalled Senators on the Line

Pls watch the video... The Tea Party Express is currently on their way to Wisconsin to get out the vote to support the 6 Republican Senators the left, Unions, and radical progressives are attempting to recall. The vote is Tuesday! Darla

In the end, the Wisconsin recalls are all about Scott Walker

In the end, it’s all coming down to the man who started it all: Scott Walker.

The recall fights in Wisconsin have entered their final, frenzied push, and the labor-backed group most heavily invested in this battle is going up on the air with a trio of closing ads that cast the recall elections as a referendum on the fellow who single-handedly turned Wisconsin into ground zero in a national class war and dress rehearsal for 2012.

Here’s We Are Wisconsin’s ad targeting GOP state senator Luther Olsen, who is key to Dem hopes of winning back the state senate: